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The '''GeoNetwork opensource''' project is a [[free software|free and open source]] cataloging application for spatially referenced resources. It is a catalog of ___location-oriented data.
It is a standardized and decentralized spatial information management environment designed to enable access to geo-referenced databases, [[cartography|cartographic]] products and related [[metadata]] from a variety of sources, enhancing the spatial information exchange and sharing between organizations and their audience, using the capacities of the internet. [[Maps]], including those derived from [[satellite imagery]], are effective communicational tools and play an important role in the work of decision makers (e.g., sustainable development planners and humanitarian and emergency managers) in need of quick, reliable and up-to-date user-friendly cartographic products as a basis for action and to better plan and monitor their activities; [[GIS]] experts in need of exchanging consistent and updated geographical data; and [[spatial analysis|spatial analysts]] in need of [[interdisciplinarity|multidisciplinary]] data to perform preliminary geographical analysis and make reliable forecasts.
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